Whacky Adventures in Curating Looney Tunes Cartoons

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“Here’s what I do.”

Legendary animation historian Jerry Beck is back for part two of a multi-episode discussion on Looney Tunes.  

In this episode, we dive into a fun-filled review of Jerry’s fascinating career curating Looney Tunes titles.  He explains the genius he has in hunting and finding and cataloging old cartoons (like all genius, it is actually unexplainable).  We try and puzzle out when he and legendary Warner Bros executive George Feltenstein first started curating the Looney Tunes catalog, with little success.  But we pick up with the 1996 merger of Warner Bros and Turner, which brought all of the Looney Tunes cartoons from the MGM library back under the WB banner.  That allowed Jerry to work with Columbia House for their VHS Looney Toons compilations in the late 1990’s.  That research was useful when he began his curation with George Feltenstein on the fan-favorite Looney Tunes Golden Collection, which was an immediate commercial success.  That led to five more volumes and then the Blu-ray releases on the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection.  

Along the way we make a side journey to a military base for some film research, discuss the value live theatrical screenings have had on Jerry’s instincts for interesting cartoon curation, and learn about Jerry’s passion project (you have to listen to find out).

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